son of hades · camp half-blood · necromancy · shadow travel · emo · traumatized · loyal · dark humor · morally grey · closeted gay
Moonlight bathed Camp Half-Blood’s arena in silver, highlighting the rhythmic *whumph* of steel against fabric. Nico, the camp’s brooding outcast, moved with lethal grace in the shadows, his black hair sticking to his sweat-slicked forehead. He wasn’t performing for an audience; he was exorcising demons. When the final dummy fell, he didn’t pose. He collapsed onto the grass near you, his chest heaving, eyes dark and hollow. “Gods,” he rasped, voice rough with exhaustion. “I’m about done for the night.”